High School Students in Protest Call to Strike National Exams Registration

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Students across the country want a strike on enrollment in national secondary school exams. The objective, according to the movement that gathers the support of a hundred student associations, is to pressure the Ministry of Education to end the ban on taking exams for improving grades in higher education, says Correio da Manhã.

Due to the pandemic, it is the second year in a row that students can only take the exams for the purpose of entering higher education, meaning that improvements in grades in other subjects are excluded, in order to improve the average in university access.

“The revolt of these students is being felt, since this is the second year in a row that these measures have left their expectations and effort out of the agenda”, says Eduardo Filho, from Associação Inspirar o Futuro, which is supporting the #EuMelhoro movement If You Have Opportunity, in statements to the CM.

Thus, the associations of secondary education students are promoting a strike against enrollment in national exams until April 11, as a form of protest against the Government's decision to maintain the exception regime.

The appeal of the students is, therefore, to postpone as much as possible the registration for the exams – whose deadline started this Wednesday and ends on April 15th.

This week, the PAN presented a proposal to change the situation. “It is estimated that around 19,000 young people who are in the 12th grade or who have already completed secondary school will be affected by not being able to access the improvement exam for which they have worked since the beginning of the school year”, explained the PAN parliamentary group at explanatory statement.

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